Re: perl: Net::DNS requires Win32::IPHelper

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug 23 15:36, Reini Urban wrote:
> 2010/8/23 Yaakov (Cygwin/X) <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>:
> > Reini,
> >
> > The Net::DNS module, which you ship with perl, depends on perl-libwin32
> > (packaged separately) and Win32::IPHelper, the latter of which depends
> > on Win32::API and enum modules. ÂWin32::API needs a custom typemap file
> > in order to compile on Cygwin, which AFAICS should be:
> >
> > TYPEMAP
> > HINSTANCE Â T_PTR
> > LPCSTR Â Â ÂT_PV
> > LPCWSTR Â Â T_PV
> 
> Oh my. Net::DNS depending on Win32::API is not really helpful.
> He already has a DNS.xs it would be easy to add the IPHelper stuff to this xs.
> perl-libwin32 is a bit fat for a perl require line, I'll see what I
> can do to remove this cyclic dependency.
> Net::DNS is only needed for the old CPAN::Reporter.
> The new CPAN::Reporter 2.0 will use Metabase and has a entirely
> different set of deps.

Here's a question:

Why does the Net::DNS module, which provides only a resolver API, depend
on a Win32-related package at all?  Cygwin 1.7 provides a BSD compatible
resolver API (res_init, res_query, etc) which should be used, just like
on Linux.  Does the module erroneously treat Cygwin as Windows target?
If so, that should be fixed.


Corinna

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